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- English Word Driver Definition One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.
- English Word Driver Definition The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a locomotive.
- English Word Driver Definition An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.
- English Word Driver Definition A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically:
- English Word Driver Definition The driving wheel of a locomotive.
- English Word Driver Definition An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier.
- English Word Driver Definition A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone.
- English Word Driver Definition The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker.
- English Word Driveway Definition A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven.
- English Word Driving Definition of Drive
- English Word Driving Definition Having great force of impulse; as, a driving wind or storm.
- English Word Driving Definition Communicating force; impelling; as, a driving shaft.
- English Word Driving Definition The act of forcing or urging something along; the act of pressing or moving on furiously.
- English Word Driving Definition Tendency; drift.
- English Word Drizzle Definition To rain slightly in very small drops; to fall, as water from the clouds, slowly and in fine particles; as, it drizzles; drizzling drops or rain.
- English Word Drizzle Definition To shed slowly in minute drops or particles.
- English Word Drizzle Definition Fine rain or mist.
- English Word Drizzled Definition of Drizzle
- English Word Drizzling Definition of Drizzle
- English Word Drizzly Definition Characterized by small rain, or snow; moist and disagreeable.
- English Word Drock Definition A water course.
- English Word Drofland Definition Alt. of Dryfland
- English Word Drogher Definition A small craft used in the West India Islands to take off sugars, rum, etc., to the merchantmen; also, a vessel for transporting lumber, cotton, etc., coastwise; as, a lumber drogher.
- English Word Drogman Definition Alt. of Drogoman
- English Word Drogoman Definition See Dragoman.
- English Word Drogue Definition See Drag, n., 6, and Drag sail, under Drag, n.
- English Word Droh Definition of Draw.
- English Word Droil Definition To work sluggishly or slowly; to plod.
- English Word Droil Definition A drudge.
- English Word Droil Definition Mean labor; toil.